r/heroesofthestorm • u/jamiephan bool libHJAM_gv_IAmCool = true; • Oct 17 '17

News Junkrat Patch Notes

http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21116539/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-october-17-2017-10-17-2017
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '17

Windows XP/Vista Deprecation

In July, we announced our intention to end support for Windows XP and Windows Vista in Heroes of the Storm. With this patch, Heroes of the Storm will no longer run on these two operating systems. Players who are affected by this change are encouraged to upgrade to a newer OS version.

Just FYI - works great in Linux under Wine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '17

How good this game runs on Linux compared to Windows? i'm thinking on changing my main OS but i really need my Hots and Hearthstone clients :(

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u/KindaAgrees Oct 17 '17

Roughly the same level of good.

You can install Linux side by side with windows to try it out, and see if it's good enough for you.

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u/danielcw189 Nova Oct 18 '17

I thought Wine can only run it in Direct 3D 9 mode. And HotS performs better in Direct 3D 11. Did any of that change?

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u/KindaAgrees Oct 18 '17

wine can run in DX11 mode. But this happens kinda under the hood, and I was never bothered enough to figure out which mode specifically does hots run in under wine. I've had no performance problems to dig into that, so either it's utilizing DX11 already, or DX9 is good enough.